Lena Gary (photo by Getz, Balto.) / Getz – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Lena Gary (photo by Getz, Balto.) / Getz in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lena Gary (photo by Getz, Balto.) / Getz
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The caption on this glass negative credits a photographer named Getz of Baltimore, and the sitter is identified as Lena Gary, a name recorded with the plate by the Bain News Service. That New York agency distributed news and portrait photographs to newspapers in the early twentieth century, and its negatives reached the Library of Congress through the George Grantham Bain Collection. The title came from the negative or caption card and has not been independently verified, so the identification and date remain open. The small glass plate format was common for studio portraits of the period, and the image shows how commercial portraits could pass between a local studio and a national picture service.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,223 × 5,822 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-7212 |
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